live from moscow date a military strike on syria could happen within days as western warships and fighter jets gather on syria's doorstep with the u.s. and britain primed for action if you and inspectors confirm a chemical attack took place. but damascus insists rebels and foreign mercenaries are behind the alleged chemical attack accusing washington of lying over claims it has undeniable evidence of government involvement. also headlining tonight greece needs another massive money boost from europe just as the people of germany get fed up with explanations on why it's ok to pour in their cash. and the takeoff from the skies high tech as the world's finest aircraft the best pilots descend on moscow region for one of the. show.

very good even chief who just joined us this is r.t. live from moscow now in our top story syria could be subjected to a military strike against the assad government within days that's what western powers of reportedly inform the country's opposition british warships are being deployed to the ukase air base in cyprus which is less than two hundred kilometers from the syrian coast. reports now from london. events are developing fast and statements coming from the parties involved also moving fast reuters have reported that the syrian national coalition was told by western powers that a strike is to be expected within days now that report does not name which individual from the s.n.c. was told that whoever goes on to report that they had the s.n.c. had already provided a western governments with

a list of potential targets in the event of a missile strike now in the meantime the a british government has confirmed that the british armed forces are indeed drawing up contingency plans for a serious strike the british parliament also has been recalled for a session on thursday david cameron the prime minister had come back early from a holiday and downing street said that cameron will not. from u.n. weapons inspectors now we know that as far as the british parliament is concerned there already have been in the past a lot of reluctance it has to do from some members of parliament over any military intervention in syria sort of be interesting to see what kind of debate or discussion that will have a thursday and on wednesday cameron will share a national security council meeting which will include senior military chiefs and cabinet members to discuss to finalize the options on any missile strike in syria now all of this while the guardian newspaper had reported earlier that there has been increased activity surrounding the air base of the british government in

cyprus this is just about one hundred miles one hundred sixty kilometers from syria the guardian reports cited some residents saying that in the last forty eight hours they have seen increased activity as well as spotting of c one thirty transport planes by some commercial pilots also reuters have reported that the u.s. navy has been expanding its mediterranean presence with a fourth a ship there this is the white house that has confirmed that barack obama the president is weighing a military strike against syria that would be of limited scope and duration they say that no more than two days and it will involve sea launched cruise missiles in addition to the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel had told the b.b.c. in an interview that the u.s. is set to act instantly should president obama order a military action against syria another report coming from the u.s. is from n.b.c. which cites sources within the u.s. government that an airstrike is possible as early as thursday. in london for us

were we talked to. the legal view codependents party of the euro he told us the british government made up its mind about interfering in syria long before the alleged chemical attack came about. from the very start it's been the british government particular shape of william hague and indeed david cameron himself who throughout the entire international community have been the keenest to get involved in syria you know whether it's arming the rebels or now as we see today a build up of warplanes in cyprus preparations for cruise missile attacks this government the british government has been the keenest of anybody to intervene in syria because government made their minds up that's why you got the build up in cyprus today parliament to be recalled because i think that throughout the conservative party i didn't deed throughout the large sections of the media in britain where the questions are being asked please prime minister can you tell us

what are the aims and objectives of this mission how can you guarantee that we were become more deeply embroiled and so i'm hoping that in forty eight hours time when the british parliament meets we get some answers to those questions but i have to say that ever since tony blair's time starting off with bosnia we seem to go in for foreign wars with alarming regularity often having no really clear objectives or any idea how we're going to withdraw and i'm sure that if we do go into military action without un security council approval it will be a real that goes on for decades but ultimately international law itself is not going to stop the british and the french and perhaps the americans if they choose to do something and so far as they will from second britain's rhetoric with president or learned saying that his country is ready to punish those who quote gassed innocence in syria paris has also pledged to increase military support for syria's opposition in the wake of the alleged chemical attack. meantime the blame game surrounding the alleged chemical attack in syria is gathering pace syria's

foreign minister insists that rebels and foreign mercenaries fighting with them are behind the alleged atrocity once again refuting washington's assertion that it was the regime the chemicals the chemical assault the damaged efforts to find a peaceful solution with the u.s. because owning a meeting with russia to discuss the revival of talks in geneva caffein off as more of their. russia and the u.s. have been scheduled to meet in the hague on wednesday now this is to discuss setting up an international conference on finding a political solution to the crisis in syria now on monday a u.s. state department official indicated that the meeting would be postponed because of ongoing consultations over an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria and that russia meanwhile had expressed regret about that decision the deputy foreign minister had said that working out the political parameters for a resolution on syria would be especially useful now with the threat of force hanging over that country the russian foreign minister foreign ministry spokesman

had also issued a statement tuesday in which he called on the international community to show quote prudence over the crisis and to observe international law urging against a potential military intervention now the intense international pressure does come on the heels of reports of a chemical weapons strike that may have killed over a thousand people in syria now a team of u.n. experts have actually arrived to damascus three days prior to that incident they were supposed to investigate a different incident and then there were reports of a masked poisoning in a suburb legibly killing hundreds of people the team did go on to investigate that attack but came under fire on monday as they were heading to the area they were able to reach the site to collect samples and to interview some witnesses but they weren't able to stay there very long just in half an hour and of course we have to keep in mind that their missions mandate is really to determine whether chemical weapons were used in the incident and not to assign blame on who was responsible for using those weapons now in some of the most aggressive language used yet by the

washington administration the secretary of state john kerry had accused the syrian government of indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and efforts to cover up its responsibility for what he called a cowardly crime he. also said that the use of weapons chemical weapons against civilians and see. it was undeniable that the obama administration would hold the syrian government accountable for what he called a moral obscenity now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned very strongly against pre-judgment about the use of chemical weapons he also said that intervention or any potential intervention by the u.s. or its allies in the syrian conflict without a u.n. resolution would be what he called a very grave violation of international law and risk repeating past mistakes so he also sort of raised some questions about the timing of the incident and why

there was such strong international pressure on action now as opposed to earlier when the reports of the alleged chemical separate chemical attack incident had arisen the syrian foreign minister spoke in damascus he lashed out at the international community saying that syria would defend itself with what he called available means that the tapped unclear exactly what that be he accused the british foreign minister giving the wrong information to the public about syria's use of chemical weapons he also claims about the u.s. secretary of state john kerry had no evidence that syria sanctioned the use of weapons so i'm unclear if those remarks are going to make much of a difference in the. international decision making process at the moment but those are some of the things that he said in that press conference we spoke to holmes blix who headed the un's weapons inspection team to iraq before and during the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion he told us there's a campaign in the media to force governments to interfere in syria but the real

purpose of intervention would be far from defending civilians. i think that the public opinion and the media in the west will be pressuring the their governments to do something they say that this is some horrible thing that there must be a punishment there must be action you cannot sit with your hands just folded so the public say that you know you must call the police we will call for a world police but the question is who is the world police is the united states is it nato it should be the security council and after an intervention which could take place i don't exclude it is still to happen what will they do will just have been a punch on the nose and then telling the belligerence in syria that they go back and continue to fight the war the mandate is to establish whether chemical weapons have been used to or not and the way they go about that is that they go to sites and they may take samples of dust and of water and they will have to

analyze that ascended to independent laboratories to lab orders they cannot just accept samples given to them from some rebels or from some site that will not take them tell them who committed the attack but at least it will be able to tell them that yes the chemicals were used we see it as in the main as a contest between rebels and the government in syria but of course the intervention is there it is in large measure a arresting match between saudi arabia and iran and on that resting much the u.s. is on the side of saudi arabia because they would like to isolate iran certainly saudi arabia is not in in syria to work for human rights it is there because they want to weaken iran that's the main purpose i think the yes you know i think you're right in saying that iran and. the us a u.s.

and russia or to get together and try to to sort out and to get a solution for syria might even make it less difficult to solve the nuclear problem concerning iran. well some countries seem to be leaning towards a military strike on syria even without a un mandate others including russia and italy say such actions without security council approval would breach international law and he's got if you can take a look back at previous military ventures that that followed. the obama administration is looking for ways to intervene in syria without a mandate from the united nations the president's national security advisers bring up the nato bombings of former yugoslavia as a possible blueprint for an intervention in syria you may not remember at the time none of the nato states that participated in the bombing former yugoslavia offered legal justifications for their actions it was labeled a humanitarian intervention and with the help of

a very one sided media campaign it was engraved in the public memory especially in the west as a success story and little has been reported that the humanitarian intervention turned into a humanitarian catastrophe on the ground what some call a success was two months of bombings thousands of people dead as a result both serbs and kosovo albanians one after seventy eight days of nato bombing serb forces withdrew from kossovo there was an ethnic cleansing of nearly a quarter of a million serbs and other minorities from cos of all allied forces used cluster bombs attacked civilian infrastructure including power plant bridges factories the headquarters of serve radio and television in belgrade even the chinese embassy and yet despite all the destruction and casualties washington saw it as a victory with the same bravado several years later the u.s. made the case for a unilateral intervention in iraq in that case it did not even bother to seek a u.n. approval washington presented false evidence and went on with the mission to remove

saddam hussein from power nearly two hundred thousand iraqis died as a result of that intervention millions lost their homes and two hundred thousand is a modest estimate iraqis continue to die in terror attacks every day and most recently in the nato went beyond its un mandate and effectively carried out a regime change what was called the humanitarian intervention resulted in a nation engulfed in chaos and terror. those are the precedents that washington has to look back to when considering an action in syria in washington i'm going to take them. more news ahead for you in a couple of minutes including one of the world's largest air shows is underway in the moscow region so you can join me for that. well the british.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. interview.

hello again from the world's most agile jet fighters to pump tomorrow's passengers it's time again yes for one of the world's largest aviation events of the year playing some of the forty countries state of the aerospace technology and of course astonishing aerial acrobatics all this just outside of moscow at the annual max show and i'll tease lindsey from this is that. mother was held here at two kosky airfield outside of moscow more than forty countries came together to make max what it is a world class international exhibition for. air and space it's where aeronautical engineers can put on display their latest developments to ensure they reach the widest audience possible also that means there's plenty of business done here more than one thousand companies are part of macs this year each of them wanting

a slice of the pie one thing is for certain if you've never seen the air program displayed here at then you've never seen aircraft new the way they move here there are plenty of maneuvers to be seen here five jet teams from russia and three from other parts of the world coming together to show you something you may have never seen before no matter if the planes or helicopters are in the air or in the sky it shows that max is still going strong after twenty years. so it was a great show he is in for one of the high flyers from the show this russian fifty five to perform all eyeopening aerial maneuvers as you can see there goes the hands of a skilled pilot should be able to run apparently anything with some startling aerobatics mazen it's a fifth generation design with stealth systems in mind the designers say the speed of more than two thousand kilometers per hour that's twice the speed this doesn't

come cheap the two fifty costs a cool fifty million dollars plenty more places to see as well too for more than half a million visitors expect the show to see what these cutting edge machines are capable of there as well throughout the week to keep you posted. that. greece may need another ten billion euros to patch the hole in its budget to fulfill the e.u. designed debt relief program but after six long years of recession and economy barely showing any life signs it's hard to see what the huge cash injections it's had so far have achieved two thousand and eight left athens almost broke but

international creditors decided not to pull the plug nonetheless and agreed to that one hundred ten billion euro loan greece accepted it had to will be accepting austerity and another one hundred thirty billion then followed shortly afterwards if the beginning of the term also public debt rocket though two hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p. the extra aid boosted that by more than a quarter journalists are a step sister family who told us there's no way greece can lift its debt weight now . what happened during the last two or three years during the so-called salvation period was that greece became it john key or for foreign intervention and foreign help it's simply impossible any more during the three hundred twenty billion saying it was impossible even in two thousand and nine everybody knew that but they wanted to bring greece into the strap that help only foreign banks especially in germany france and some other countries we only shouldn't blue should now it's to deform

having the greek people in control of the procedure eurozone creates deficits and debts to the european very very well at the same time create their pieces to the european core so we were saying from two thousand and nine two thousand and ten that we should leave the eurozone again in our therapist and not in terms imposed by berlin brussels or any other place in europe it destroyed again the infrastructure of the greek economy not only of the greek economy the same thing happened in spain portugal and ireland all the countries that took the strait jacket off. of the monetary union. well greece already owes a whopping two hundred forty billion euros and it wants some of the term slack and all that which comes in a very sensitive time for arguably its main bank in germany let's go there now should we talk to election candidate who brought in some from the alternative for germany party who thought the time to be where this was one of the masterminds of

the bailout how far would it still be prepared to go the to put more money into it that's the question. well it really depends on whom you are asking if you are asking the government the conservative and the liberal party they are prepared to go all the way just look at the and mr mario draghi who promised to do whatever it takes to save the euro. if you ask the social democrats and the green party who are the main opposition parties they are prepared to go even further than all the way they are planning to introduce euro bonds now everyone knows that euro bonds will put additional risk to german bones but if you ask mr and mrs average on the street if they would like to continue rescuing french and german banks via the greek bailout scheme the clear answer is no so while the politicians listening. while in the media you on find hardly any topic that is prepared to take up the

euro crisis instead we are discussing. a system to charge. via kills on the outer bond we have a big discussion about the n.s.a. the spy scandal still they're accusing each other of compliancy of playing along with the n.s.a. everything has been done really to cover this topic up joni's federal election just spent a month off now with the news coming out from grace that it probably does need more money how is that going to affect angela merkel standing at the polls. well until america is still the darling for many german voters but she is facing increasing opposition not just from other parties but also from her own party members who keep asking very uncomfortable questions like why did we breach the maastricht treaty why do we why do we continue to pile up millions of pounds of

euros in debt just to help southern europe when our own infrastructure is is suffering we need huge investments for the railways for the outboards for the famed outer bands and people just wondering how all this will pay out in the end we surely it's harder for the politicians to justify this to put the p.r. spin on it to the taxpayers in germany as. well as a set the the people keep asking questions and not the correct answer so i've been given especially from the conservative and the little democrats. now there's a new party the alternative to germany and they are providing the answers these people are looking for we have a huge number of people coming from the traditional parties especially the conservatives and the liberal parties who are joining the alternative for the enemy because they realise that we have given them the right answers and we have prepared

to stop this so what i'm going to do to get you in to see greece out of the e.u. the. oh i think you're mixing up two things here we don't want to see greece out of the e.u. which is the european union we would like to give them the opportunity to leave the euro zone i don't know what it all he could have used their courage to give any more money. well basically that's what it is greece needs to introduce their own currency so that they can devalue their currency to regain competitive advantage on the global market there is no other way they are in no position whatsoever to repay the huge loans that we're giving to them your colleague just said a minute ago two hundred forty billion now the i.m.f. estimated another. about eleven billion would be needed in two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen now if you don't give the greek economy the chance to be in a position to repay the dead we are looking at

a huge massive disaster q thanks for the program. to give us your thought thanks for having me pleasure. ahead of a major russian companies been arrested in belarus airport after being looted the country under the pretext of meeting with government officials his arrest may be due to his decision to break off a partnership with a state firm there which didn't go down well with the country's authoritarian leadership but he's katie pilbeam bridge of the story tonight the head of your account has been snatched at the airport being being thought to be the first hostage and the so-called death potash wall so they're saying now i just want to give you a bit of a background that he's accused of abusing his power in the partnership that class was in your county and bellerose county together this post has cartel accounted for over a third of the global twenty three billion dollar industry now that partnership fell apart at the end of july when your i can't accuse the other producer of undermining

the cells that's the business part of it so getting a little bit political at the moment is moscow's not too happy about the action is somewhat fieri you know looking at the t.v. while there is riches powerful people in handcuffs you know surrounded by about there is place i can say that the deputy prime minister hugo chavez of his saying that it's all inappropriate and not fitting as have partnerships it's a little bit out of hand or a spy thriller going on. seem so couple of world news stories in brief starting with colombia with fierce clashes erupted between protesters and riot police farmers there are demanding the agricultural laws be revamped and they call for better working conditions riot squads use tear gas and buttons to force the stone throwing demonstrators off the street meanwhile the country's president agreed to negotiate with the protesters after a week of my friends now. taliban fighters in afghanistan have executed twelve people in two provinces for working for the government all of victims were engineers and drivers who operated under a world bank funded program aimed at improving the local economy rising number of

attacks against civilians a spot concerns of a security would most foreign troops pull out in twenty forty. it's a twenty seven out of thanks for being with us somebody with news updates in just over half an hour between the bank is be well again my ex and stacy here with another cuz a report right after the break. sometimes it seems like in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself about what a few individuals with no real money or power can really do against the system but you never go in fact if you remember tour discussion about ammonia doused pink slime being used across america and frozen fast foods well shift jamie oliver has

actually managed to shame mcdonald's enough on t.v. to get them to back down and stop using this ultra processed form of quote meat at their establishments also we recently discussed gamer rage at the rather racist portrayal of russians in the game company of heroes two well all the rage actually worked and thanks to the seventeen thousand signatures on the change dot org petition that game has been pulled from russian shelves by the developer the thing is that massive corporations do a lot of bad things because they have no morals and are obsessed with profit but because they have no morals and are only obsessed with profit the second you even slightly threaten their cash flow they will instantly start cowering at your feet sometimes but that's just my opinion.

ties are this is the kaiser report you know there's been a lot of killings lately it's hard to keep track yes former politicians government officials regulators and heads of state are raking it in making a killing out the revolving office door into the high paying jobs as consultants otherwise those client hires oh my god it's all corrupt stacy herbert tell us more about this max once again j.p. morgan is in our headlines this time for client hires in china they're being investigated by the f.c.c. in a civil lawsuit looking to see whether or not they were bribed basically via jobs offering jobs to the children of important chinese officials in exchange for business s.c.c.s. j.p. morgan probe threatens cozy tradition of client hires the u.s. government's bribery investigation into j.p. morgan's a point of at least two chinese bankers has prompt.